25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
68
‡ A VENETIAN SCHIAVONA, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
with broad flat double-edged blade stamped ‘Ioanni’ and a series of further letters (indistinct) within a short fuller framed by incised lines and eyelash marks on each face, rectangular ricasso struck with a cross mark and retaining its leather scabbard cover, iron basket-hilt of characteristic trellised flattened bars, cut with a brief inscription on one bar at the rear, forward-canted quillon with moulded terminal, copper alloy shield-shaped pommel drawn-out in the centre on each face and chiselled with a flower-head, and early cord-bound fishskin-covered grip, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with iron mounts enclosing the sides of the lower half terminating in an openwork iron chape (small losses, repaired above the chape), 94.5 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1425
Sold for £2,600
with broad flat double-edged blade stamped ‘Ioanni’ and a series of further letters (indistinct) within a short fuller framed by incised lines and eyelash marks on each face, rectangular ricasso struck with a cross mark and retaining its leather scabbard cover, iron basket-hilt of characteristic trellised flattened bars, cut with a brief inscription on one bar at the rear, forward-canted quillon with moulded terminal, copper alloy shield-shaped pommel drawn-out in the centre on each face and chiselled with a flower-head, and early cord-bound fishskin-covered grip, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with iron mounts enclosing the sides of the lower half terminating in an openwork iron chape (small losses, repaired above the chape), 94.5 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1425
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025, 25th Jun, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
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